But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.

So, we should leave the basic principles of Christ's teaching and go on to maturity. [We should] not lay again a foundation of repentance [i.e., turning away] from deeds of death [i.e., acts that lead to spiritual death or that spring from a spiritually dead person], and of faith in God;

But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.